Clamp.



P. U. GILLITT.

CLAMP.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 24, 1909.

9?1 49 Patentefi Sept. 27, 1910.

Snow/W601 7 which the hook clamp is. attached.

FREDRIG G. GILLITT, 0F HASTINGS, -HINNESOTA.

' cramp.

,To all whom it may concern:

' Be it kiiown that I, FREDRIC C. GILLITT, a citizen "of the United States, residing at Hastings, in the county of Dakota and State of Minnesota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved hook clamp especially adapted to be attached to a crossbeam of a'porch or'other structure and for ending a swing, a hangingbasket use for sus or other 0 ject or device, the object of the invention being to provide an improved suspending hook which may be readily attached to a supporting beam or other object without thenecessity of boring a hole in said beam or other object, without the necessity of employing pawlsfor attaching the hook clamp and w thout danger of 'marring the surface of or injuring'the beam' or other object to The'said'nvention consists in: the con-" struct on, combination and arrangements ofdevices hereinafter described and claimed;

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hook clamp ,constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig.9 is partly a side-elevation and partly sectional view of the-same showing the hook clamp attached to a beam. I

My, improved hook clam has a pair of jaw members-1, 2 each of w ich has anrecess on its inner side at its upper end for. the reception of the pad or cushion'3, said pads or. cushions being made of rubber or other suitable elastic material and presenting concaye element. The w 2 faces 4: for engagement with the opposite sides of a supporting object such as a cam a orthe orch or other structure. The jaw '1. has a epending arm 5 at the lower end of which is a bar- 6 the said bar havin a hook 7 or other analogous device adap for the attachment of ,a chain ro e, rin or like lso as a epending arm 8 which is here shown as inclining in- "wardly toward the arm 5 of the jaw 1 andthe said arm"8 has near its lower end an opening 9 for the rece tion of the bar 6 so v that the said bar 6 an the said arm-8 form 1 '50 aslidable connection between the jaw memhere 1, 2 sothat said jawmembers may be Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed September 24, 1909. Serial No. 519,495.

- Patented Sept. ,27, 1910,

I moved toward or from each other as may be required. An adjusting and clamping screw 10 passes through an opening in the 'arm5 :of the jaw member 1 and has its threaded portion in engagementwith a threaded opening in the arm 8 of the jaw member 2. Said ad usting and clamping screw has a -flatv tened head 11 at its outer end whereby it .may be readlly turned to clamp the cushions or pads of the jaw members on opposite sides lease the same therefrom as will be understood. p

It will be obvious from the foregoing description that owing to the provision of the pads or cushions my improved clamp hook may be attached to a supporting device with out injury to the latter and without marring its surfaces.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is clamp hook comprising a pair of re'ctangularshaped jaw members having their opposed inner faces countersunk, cushionsarranged in the said countersunks, one of said aw members being provided on its of a beam or other supporting object or "relower side with an arm, a portion of which inclines downwardly and beyond the plane of the inner face of the jaw and ends in a vertical downward extension having a threaded opening, the said extension terminating in a downwardly inclined extension having adjacent to its center a slot, the other of said jaws being provided on its lower side with an arm, a portion of. which extends vertically downward and is provided with an opening to aline with the screw-threaded opening, the said downwardly extending portion terminatin in a bent portion extending beyond the inner face of the secondnamed jaw and insertible into the said slot,

a hook depending from the "saidgbent portion, and a clamping screw passing through said openings.

in presence 0 two witnesses.

FREDRIO o. GI LI'TT;

Witnesses: a W. E. Soo'm',

T. S. RYAN. V

In testimon whereof I aflix my signature. 

